Re: Index Scans become Seq Scans after VACUUM ANALYSE
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Luis Alberto Amigo Navarro <lamigo@atc.unican.es>
Cc: Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh@pop.jaring.my>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>, Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-04-23T16:42:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Luis Alberto Amigo Navarro wrote: > Hi All. > I've been reading all the thread and I want to add a few points: > > You can set enable_seqscan=off in small or easy queries, but in large > queries index can speed parts of the query and slow other, so I think it is > neccesary if you want Postgres to become a Wide-used DBMS that the planner > could be able to decide accuratelly, in the thread there is a point that > might be useful, it will be very interesting that the planner could learn > with previous executions, even there could be a warm-up policy to let > planner learn about how the DB is working, this info could be stored with DB > data, and could statistically show how use of index or seqscan works on > every column of the DB. Yes, I have always felt it would be good to feed back information from the executor to the optimizer to help with later estimates. Of course, I never figured out how to do it. :-) -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026